TRG has reprioritized it's long term objectives, and due to resourceconstraints and short term schedules, the Open Source NDS and OpenSource NTFS File System projects are being withdrawn from the LinuxInitiative. These projects will be MANOS only, and any interested partyis free to acquire the code and back port them into Linux, though thenetworking architectures are profoundly different between the two. Thelack of a Kernel Debugger and other basic kernel level facilities onLinux make TRG's job about 20 times harder on Linux and take almost 10times as long as is possible on NT, NetWare, or MANOS to developsoftware asa result ofthis. To date, TRG has invested over$1,500,000.00 on Linux development projects enabling NetWare-to-Linuxinteroperability so we feel like we have contributed erstwhile resourcesto date. Downloads of NWFS has exceeded 900,000 copies to date fromTRG's website.

TRG will continue to support NWFS on Linux as a migration file systemfor NetWare-to-Linux Migration, however, all new development will be onthe MANOS platform only. M2FS for Linux will be available in binaryform only for those interested parties. A press release will be sent onMonday informing the industry that TRG has withdrawn these projects inOpen Source form on Linux and citing the reasons for this decision.

As for the reasons behind this decision, TRG has attempted to be ancontributing member of Linux for quite some time, however, thearchitecture of Linux is unnatural to Novell's and Microsoft'stechnologies and Linux is at present incapable of providing the samelevel of Networking capability available with Windows 2000 or NetWare toenterprise customers. NetWare routinely supports upwards of 2000 usersper server for file and print. Linux with it's current level ofdevelopment has trouble with configurations of more than 100 users viaMARS-NWE or SAMBA in our tests. TRG's MANOS source code and componentsare freely available to the Linux community, and TRG has no objection tocontinued participation with the Linux Community and use of any of it'ssource code in Linux projects.

Very Truly Yours,

Jeff MerkeyCEO, TRG-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.orgPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/